This review contains spoilers

The God of Fear and Hunger acknowledges your suffering.

The kind of game that's a back and forth of escalating cheating to present suffering in escalation. It messes with you and fucks with you, but at the same time the scars you accumulate build towards a larger scale of knowledge, of opportunities to break through it. The anti-Katamari Damacy; in a sense representing salvation from life in death, rather than affirming life.

I find parts of its philosophy intriguing, representing life as a whole accumulated and compressed in the dungeons of Fear and Hunger. The Pocketcat's speech, saying that one does not feel happiness but joy inbetween eternal suffering. I'm not here to make sweeping statements like this, but more so recognize and acknowledge that Fear & Hunger is suffering, and the game's atmosphere and storytelling of lost souls descending into hell on earth for some sort of meaning to be intriguing.

I did have fun with Fear & Hunger, at its best and at its worst. I enjoyed learning more of the game and feeling rewarded for my knowledge, knowing how to exploit it to the best of my ability, and being presented with a wall to overcome. The script and story found might be kind of nothing; some of the cast is interesting but they're not given much time to shine, but the text matters little to the world presented and the storytelling presented by its pure gameplay.

Reviewed on Oct 19, 2023


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